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Helix pomatia, known as the Roman snail, Burgundy snail, or escargot, is a species of large, air-breathing stylommatophoran land snail native to Europe. It is characterized by a globular brown shell. It is characterized by a globular brown shell.
Helix is a genus of large, air-breathing land snails native to the western Palaearctic and characterized by a globular shell. [1] [2]It is the type genus of the family Helicidae, and one of the animal genera described by Carl Linnaeus [3] at the dawn of the zoological nomenclature.
Helicidae is a large, diverse family of western Palaearctic, medium to large-sized, air-breathing land snails, sometimes called the "typical snails."It includes some of the largest European land snails, several species are common in anthropogenic habitats, and some became invasive on other continents.
Lumaca romana, (translation: Roman snail), was an ancient method of snail farming or heliciculture in the region about Tarquinia. This snail-farming method was described by Fulvius Lippinus (49 BC) and mentioned by Marcus Terentius Varro in De Re rustica III, 12. The snails were fattened for human consumption using spelt and aromatic
The Discovery of Purple by Hercules's Dog by Theodoor van Thulden, c. 1636 A Phoenicias coin depicting the legend of the dog biting the sea snail. The Roman mythographer Julius Pollux, writing in the 2nd century AD, recounts that the purple dye was first discovered by Heracles (Greek counterpart of the titular god of Tyre, Melqart) [c] while ...
Helicinae is a subfamily of terrestrial gastropods in the family Helicidae.It contains mostly large land snail species, distributed in the western Palaearctic.The most recent (as of 2023) classification proposed division into three tribes.
His snails set the trend among the Roman upper class, and the practice became popular. Lippinus was an innovator who managed a large company that marketed his snails beyond the Mare Nostrum. [n. 1] In De re coquinaria, one of the complete Roman cookbooks, four recipes based on snails are mentioned. [14]
Land snails, freshwater snails and sea snails are all eaten in many countries. In certain parts of the world snails are fried. For example, in Indonesia, they are fried as satay, a dish known as sate kakul. The eggs of certain snail species are eaten in a fashion similar to the way caviar is eaten. [28]